Just for fun, and because I am a fan, we’ll be learning this song from They Might be Giants:

As always, narration will take place once I am sure the kids understand the process!

Vocabulary Words to Know (some may be repeats – good for review!):

1. Photosynthesis

2. Chloroplast

3. Chlorophyll

4. Carbon dioxide

5. Cellulose

6. Pigment

7. Carotenoid

8. Stomata

9. Carbon fixing

10. Calvin cycle

Experiment:

As always, the experiment will be simple and use common materials. This one will be a little bit long term, but we will expose two plants to two different kinds of light – one to natural sunlight and one to artificial fluorescent light. We will observe how they grow under these different conditions and track our observations. Easy, peasy!

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